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LADA; JUST WAIT FOR THE JOKES
Topic Started: May 10 2008, 02:01 PM (613 Views)
ELUSIVEJIM
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In a shock move Lada looks set to make its World Touring Car Championship racing debut competing alongside the BMW of British Champion Andy Priaulx.

The Lada 110 racing car took part in its first official test at Oschersleben this week, taking to the track amongst a pack of rampaging BMW 3-Series, Seat Leons, Chevrolet Lacettis and Honda Accords.

Drivers Viktor Shapovalov and Jaap van Lagen drove the Lada 110 for around 40 laps, and made one unscheduled stop in the gravel trap.

Luckily the car was undamaged, and while some work still needs to be done to improve the Lada’s handling, the 110 recorded a best lap of 1 minute 52 seconds - not too far off last year’s pole-position time of 1 minute 48.

The front-wheel-drive Lada 110 is powered by a highly-tuned 2-litre Opel/Vauxhall engine which is capable of summoning more than 280bhp.

It’s being developed by Dutch-based Russian Bears Motorsport and could be a stepping stone for an official Lada team into the world motorsport scene.

So far it has proved reliable with the Russian racer surprising the team with its speed so early in development.

Lada and its parent company AutoVaz are certainly no joke - they are big players in the huge Russian car market and sell plenty of cars in Eastern Europe.

A return for Lada into Western Europe and even the UK could be just around the corner.

Entering a Lada into the World Touring Car Championship is one way to get its cars noticed and boost Lada’s brand status.
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ppparkinson9
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It's not that shock a move, it was announced a while ago. The WTCC rules will help them even if their car is a brick. Sure they have their reputation but that's why they are doing this in the first place.
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Steelstallions
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Sorry but unless they can do what VW did for Skoda, Lada could win the WTCC, but who would want one?
It would get noticed but joe public took a lot of convincing that skoda was a good brand even though they are VW through and through now.
Whats lada got to offer?
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ppparkinson9
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So long as they provide some extra competitive cars for the WTCC who cares?
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John
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LADA ALLOWED TO RACE BUT NOT TO SCORE

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Link to article.................................HERE!!!

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The Stewards, having received a report from the FIA Technical Delegate, decided to allow the two Russian Bears Motorsport's cars to take part in the event further to the agreement of all the other competitors, however the Russian cars will not be eligible to score points for both the championship and the Independents Trophy.

The reason for this decision was that the intake and the outlet ports of the cylinder head were not conform to the homologation form.




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